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Wraith might make only a spectral appearance

Most stock CPU coolers are junked when the chip is delivered and replaced with something which is a little more sexy and does not sound like a B52 taking off.

Odd really as most people don’t overclock so spending a fortune on an expensive cooler is not that important.

Now AMD has just shown off its Wraith cooler which looks like the days of the dull stock cooler are a thing of the past.

For a start it is a lot bigger and has a much larger fan spinning consistently at a lower speed. This makes it quieter than its predecessor and it does not switch on and off all the time.

Sadly we are not sure which chips will get the Wrath. IT is rated for 125W, and AMD says that high-end FX chips that suck more energy than that were primarily designed for use with water-cooling systems rather than stock coolers.

So the name "wraith" might be because it is rarely seen and only by those who no sane people would believe.

Powercolor has announced a new series of double blade fans that were developed in cooperation with its thermal partner, Double Blades.

The new design adds an extra fan blade that is actually attached to the original one and can absorb airflow into the center thus providing up to 20 percent more airflow when compared to the traditional and exsiting thermal designs. The new design also prevends the dust depositing at the bearings and/or at the bottom of the fan and prolonging the life cycle of the cooler as well as the graphics card.

According to Powercolor/TuL, the new Double Blades design will be implemented in future graphics card coolers and out best bet are the first custom cooled Volcanic Islands based graphics cards. Of course, if AMD gives a green light on custom designs and do not stick to reference one.

Taking a break from high-quality cases, CPU coolers and gaming peripherals, Cooler Master has launched three new notebook coolers that will be a part of the NotePal series as well as the new CM Storm SF-17 notebook cooler for gaming notebooks.

The Notepal Comforter Air aims at those people that are using cushions or some other stuff to avoid feeling the heat coming from the notebook in their lap, thus causing the notebook to overheat. Compatible with notebooks up to 15.6 inches in size, the Notepal Comforter features a cushion combined with a 100mm fan that should cool the notebook down as well as feel comfortable on your legs.

The Comforter mini is a passive cooling pad for notebooks and tablets which allows notebooks to get decent fresh air to the intake as well as have a groove that allows cable management.

On the other hand, the Notepal XL is a whole different beast. Designed around a 230mm silent fan with blue LEDs, it is compatible with up to 17-inch notebooks, features USB hub with three USB connectors and has a fan speed controller. The Notepal XL will certainly pack enough punch to cope with most gaming notebooks.

Last but not the least, the CM Storm SF-17 is a gaming grade notebook cooler aimed at those that frequent LAN parties. Compatible notebooks up to 19 inches, the CM storm features a powerful 180mm fan, has fan speed controller and four USB connections via USB hub. It also has an abilty to change into four positions thus providing additional ergonomics when using external peripherals, something that is a must on gaming notebooks.

The new Notepal notebook coolers as well as the CM Storm SF-17 should be available pretty soon with a price set at €29.99 for the NotePal Comforter Air, €14.99 for the NotePal Comforter mini €24.99 for the NotePal XL and €49.99 for the CM Storm SF-17.

Enermax has announced that it will be launching a new liquid-cooling all-in-one cooler during the Computex 2012 show in Taipei, the ELC-120.

As the name suggests, it will feature a 120mm fan on the radiator. Enermax also announced that the new ELC-120 will feature "micro channel" copper cold plate, ceramic bearing pump, durable and silent 120mm twister bearing fan and universal mounting system for all major CPU sockets.

In addition to the ELC-120, Enermax will also announce the new PLATIMAX PSU models that will apparently be able to provide up to 1350 and 1700W of power, as well as an overkill 2500W LED Power, an "industrial power series".

Cooler Master has announced its latest tower CPU cooler with support for Intel's LGA2011 socket and Continuous Direct Contact technology.

The new Hyper 412S has 132x99x160mm dimensions and weighs 609 grams. As noted, the Hyper 412S is a tower design cooler with four 6mm direct contact heatpipes connected to aluminum fin heatsink. According to Cooler Master, the new Continuous Direct Contact technology creates a virtual vapor chamber that should improve cooling. The cooler comes with a 120mm fan that spins up to 1300 RPM and produces 22.5dBA of noise.

In addition to the native LGA2011 support, the Hyper 412S also supports Intel's 1155, 1366, 1156 and 775 socket CPUs as well as AMD's AM3+, AM3, AM2+, AM2 and FM1 socket CPUs.

The new Hyper 412S should be availble pretty soon and the price should be set at €37.90 including tax.

We don't usually refer to coolers as "sweet", but the new Scythe Kozuti indeed looks "sweet". Only 40mm high, it's designed for small cases and even ITX boards. But while it's not high, it's 10cm wide and that may be a problem for some boards. Regardless, the design is quite radically different, because the fan sits below the cooler and an 8cm fan suggests that it will be pretty loud at 100% speed.

If your case is taller you may also mount a 10cm slim fan on top of the cooler, which would reduce noise when the 8cm starts spinning like a little chopper. Our fan is not available anymore, but the Scythe Jyu Slim SY1012SL12L with up to 1000rpm or the SY1012SL12M up to 2000rpm will do just fine.

Mounting:

There are two ways to mount the cooler on your board, you can choose either to put the heatpipes parallel to the power-connector or angle them 90°:

After mounting the cooler, the cooler does exceed the height of a full backpanel only by 10mm.

Temperatures:

Generally the temperatures are a bit better when the heatpipes run parallel to the power-connector. But even rotated at 90°, the difference is not as high as you would expect.

We tested this cooler with an AMD Phenom II X4 905e, which gives ample power for gaming but at a reduced TDP of 65W. From the experience we've gathered, CPUs with a higher TDP are possible, although noise may be reason for concern. At 3500rpm our fan did about 50dB(A), which is loud. At a setting of 30% the board regulated the fan down to about 1600rpm, which was inaudible in our closed case. To help to reduce noise further, a 10cm fan can do you good. On the other hand, it may cause trouble especially in some ITX cases because it adds 12mm of height. Environmental temperature was 22.5°C.

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Conclusion:

As we've come to expect from Scythe, the built quality is excellent. With it's unusual design Scythe has once again proven to be innovative and now, even ITX case owners have a choice for a 3rd party cooler.

With only 250g and 40mm height (about 43mm mounted) the cooler is more powerfull than we have expected just by the looks of it. The mounting is not as easy, but as long as you don't need to change the CPU all the time, it's easy enough.

The sweet spot for such a product are CPUs up to 65W TDP; higher TDPs are possible but it would also cause much more noise. In our tests, the cooler kept the temperatures down to acceptable levels without doing any noticeable noise. Also consider we did test with Prime95 and most applications don't come close to the CPU-load Prime95 does.

Of course such quality has its price and is now on sale for about €25,-/$32,- which is not quite a bargain. However, due to it's unique design and the quality Scythe delivers we have no other choice but to recommend it. If you need a cooler for your ITX or µATX case, don't look further, because the Kozuti is as good as it gets.

Quite well known for its graphics card and motherboard business, EVGA has now announced its first CPU cooler, the EVGA Superclock.

Based on the tower design the new EVGA Superclock supports all the latest Intel and AMD sockets and CPUs and features five black-painted copper heatpipes that are actually the base of the cooler as it is based on direct-touch technology. The all black aluminum heatsink is cooled by a 120mm red LED fan spinning from 750 to 2500 RPM.

We aren't sure how well will this one sell but we are pretty sure that we'll see it bundled with some of the future motherboards. The EVGA Superclock can be found here with a US $49.99 price tag.

It's been a while since we've seen a water cooler from Cooler Master but judging from the A-L2 prototype unit showcased at Cebit, this will change pretty soon.

The Project A-L2 as Cooler Master calls it for now will be a sealed, ready to use, water cooling system for CPU. Although it is similar to the water cooling systems from CoolIT and Asetek, Cooler Master is proud to say that this one is all theirs.

The A-L2 features a large radiator cooled by a single fan and a pump/block system. Most of those similar water cooling systems have a rather noisy pump, but Cooler Master's engineer behind this project told us that this one will end up to be pretty silent compared to others on the market. One other noticeable thing is the special block that should improve the transfer of the heat and thus make this water cooling system pretty unique.

The A-L2 should appear in reatil sometimes in May with a price set at below US $100.

Today we’ll talk about Thermalright Archon CPU cooler, which launched sometime towards the end of 2010. Weighing in at 806g (without the fan and socket mounting parts) and measuring 17cm in height, Archon is a heavyweight CPU cooler with imposing tower looks and, hopefully, extraordinary performance.

The specially designed heatsink should provide improved dissipation. The package comes with Thermalright’s silent TR-TY 14cm fan and since Archon’s heatsink is 53mm wide, you can strap it with another 14cm fan in the so-called push-pull mode.

Archon’s competition in the high-end CPU cooling segment is pretty strong, but while there are many good coolers, not many stand out as being really special. So, let’s move on and see whether Archon has what it takes to stand out of the crowd.

As we’re used to seeing from Thermalright, packaging is a small but sturdy box.

You’ll find the name of the product on one side of the box, and that’s pretty much the only information that says what’s in the box.

Archon is cozily sitting inside protected with polyurethane foam.

Thermalright ships its TR-TY 140 fan (140mm) with Archon cooler as well as fan-clips for two fans and parts for mounting the cooler on AMD and Intel sockets.

Two manuals with plenty of pictures will help you mount Archon in no time.

Archon’s heatsink measures (L)155mm X (W)53mm X (H)170.25mm, which means it’s a high tower-design cooler. Although its dimensions are similar to those of other high end tower coolers, it’s clear that Thermalright did some work on heatsink and heatpipe design.

You can find Thermalright’s listed specs below.

Each of the 50 aluminum fins is made out of one 0,5mm thick sheet of aluminum. By bending them at several points, Thermalright narrowed the heatsink to 155mm, which is compatible with most systems. Such a construction should improve airflow through the heatsink and of course, improve cooling performance.

Thermalright also improved airflow by leaving a hole in the midle of the heatsink, something the company has done on some of its previous coolers (for instance the HR-02 that we tested here).

As you can see, the cooler has six heatpipes but only two were bent in the traditional U form.

Archon uses the so called “Pressure Vault Bracket” for mounting, just like most other Thermalright coolers. This allows for introducing pressure from 40 to 70 pounds.

The copper base comes with mirror-like finish.

Thermalright’s Archon comes with TR-TY 140mm PWM fan with maximum RPM of 1300. The fan can churn out 73CF airflow with maximum noise of 21dBA.

Archon is only 53mm thick so it should not interfere with your memory modules, not even when you strap it with a fan.

Archon supports Intel sockets 775/1155/1156/1366 as well as AMD sockets AM2/AM2+/AM3. Naturally, larger cases will provide maximum compatibility whereas smaller ones will require you to do some math. The following picture can help you with checking whether Archon will fit in your case.

Archon can be used with one or two fans and, as you can see from the picture below, they are mounted to the cooler via metal wires (fan-clips).

The procedure is simple enough – mount the wires on the heatsink first and fasten the fan. The wires are pretty tough and it is advised to mount them before the cooler is on your motherboard.

The manual features plenty of pictures and you won’t have any problems mounting the cooler.

You can mount the Archon vertically or horizontally – Thermalright’s moutning system will take it either way.

There’s just enough room between the cooler ant the rear panel to mount another fan.

Archon’s heatsink is 42,55mm above the CPU, which means that we could have mounted it horizontally without memory getting in the way. Note however that memory modules with tall heatspreaders, such as Corsair Dominator series, will not allow for horizontal placement of Archon.

In short, mounting Archon on EVGA’s FTW 3 went without a hitch. However, you still might want to check out Thermalright’s compatibility list, which can be found here.

For instance, Thermalright warns users that P55 might introduce problems and the company said:

”Archon’s length measures 155mm, so the first step would be confirm the position of your first vga slot on the motherboard, especially ASUS P55 series users, please take note of the following installation instruction.

Normal ATX board would have space for 7 vga slots, but most motherboard manufacturers would only supply six PCI slots, this is because the area of the first slot is often taken by the north bridge, but due to the new P55 design, there will be no north bridge, so the first slot would be used as a primary VGA slot.

Before installing the Archon CPU cooler, you may confirm by looking at the I/O ports, right below the I/O port if there is a close-by first slot, then you will need to have your vga card installed in the second PCI-E slot, to have enough space for Archon, please see below.

If the position of your first PCI-E slot is in the second slot, then you may install the Archon without any problem, please see below

Since Thermalright Archon is 170mm tall, you must have a case at least 190mm wide. In case you have a fan on the side panel, you’ll have to take it off before mounting Archon. Archon fit like a glove in our Corsair Obsidian 800D.

We performed our testing in Corsair Obsidian 800D case with three reference fans running at 900RPM (room temperature about 22°C). Our weapons of choice were EVGA’s X58 FTW3 motherboard and Core i7 930 CPU. The temperatures were measured at reference 2.9GHz as well as after our overclock (we pushed the CPU to 3.6GHz).

For the first test with Archon we used one 14cm fan. We’re talking about Thermalright’s TR-TY 140 fan (900~1300RPM) which ended up being enough for Archon’s excellent performance. The case’s rear panel houses a 14cm fan that pushes the air out, so we’ve got ourselves a neat push-pull setup here.

The 14cm, 900 RPM fan on the case’s rear panel does great to improve cooling and ultimately, adding another fan on the cooler’s tower heatsink made little difference.

We used Prime95 to put a 100% load on all Core i7 930’s cores, so bear in mind that we’re talking about a scenario that will most probably never happen. We measured temperatures on all four cores using AIDA64 (the successor to Everest), and put average values in the tables. We used Gelid’s GC Extreme paste.

High end CPU cooling segment packs plenty of strong competition but Thermalright Archon has proven that its extraordinary performance deserves a place in top spots.

If you’re shopping for a cooler you should note that Archon is 17cm tall. Archon’s standard packaging includes Thermalright’s quality TY-14cm fan. Archon is 55mm thick and if it fits in your case, it probably means that it will take two fans without getting in the way of your equipment.

We were sent a standard Archon package with one TR-TY 14cm fan by pc-cooling.de and it costs about €60. However, if you want two fans you can head over to pc-cooling.de and purchase the same package with two fans for €70, here.

Prolimatech Genesis is a new cooler in the high-end segment of the CPU cooling market. Its design, as you can see, is pretty unusual but we’ve heard it packs a mean punch and we set out to see whether that is indeed the case.

Genesis' concept was talked about for around two years, but Prolimatech kept its promise an finalized the mass production step. As you can see, the cooler is anything but ordinary.

Judging by size alone, Genesis should definitely do a good job, but its size might turn out to be a hindrance for those with smaller cases. Furthermore, Genesis’ size is in accordance with its price, meaning that it does not come cheap. You can find it priced at €60 at caseking.de, here.

Although Genesis’ packaging is large as a PSU one, we though the simplicity and color scheme were quite refreshing. Let’s hope Genesis “refreshes” our components as well.

As you can see from the picture, the box holds components for mounting the cooler on AMD’s and all popular Intel’s sockets. Specs say that Genesis measures 146mm x 216.5mm x 160mm.

Genesis cooler encompasses tower and blow-down cooling all in one neat package. The heatsink, as you can see, is split in two parts - one part is perpendicular to the CPU whereas the other is parallel to the motherboard. Genesis should be efficient even when paired up with low-RPM fans and its unusual design allows for using up to three large 14cm fans.

Just to put things in perspective, the picture below shows how Genesis looks when mounted on a motherboard. The box says that Genesis is an „all-in-one Super-Sized CPU cooler“ and we agree wholeheartedly.

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The heatsink measures (L)146mm X (W)216.5mm X (H)160mm and weighs in at 800g. Genesis has pretty standard weight for a high-end CPU cooler but it could very well be the widest CPU cooler on the market. Genesis supports Intel sockets 775, 1156 and1366 but you can mount it on AMD’s AM2/AM2+/AM3 sockets as well thanks to the included AMD mounting mechanism.

The cooler does not come with fans, but it does feature two 14cm/12cm fan brackets so setting up the fans will be a breeze

Genesis has six heatpipes. Cooler base is nickel-plated and comes with mirror finish, much like Prolimatech’s earlier coolers.

The two Genesis heatsinks are perpendicular to one another, which means that Genesis utilizes every possible bit of airflow.

Mounting the Genesis cooler is not complicated and can easily be performed by following the included written instructions, provided the cooler is compatible with your motherboard of course. For this reason we’ll skip the mounting procedure and show the Genesis mounted on Asus Rampage II Extreme motherboard.

Genesis packaging says that it will cool your CPU, RAM, MOSFET and Northbridge chipset, where our testing has proven it is indeed the case. The picture clearly shows how Genesis cools the memory.

Prolimatech has been making CPU coolers with split heatsinks, such as Megahalem or Armageddon coolers. However, Genesis’ heatsink is not only split but the parts are completely detached from one another. We’ve already said that heatsink measures (L)146mm X (W)216.5mm X (H)160mm. Note that it is designed in order to fit on most motherboards.

However, not all motherboards will like this cooler. For instance, we had difficulties mounting the Genesis on EVGA’s FTW 3 motherboard due to the board using a tall VRM heatsink. We practically couldn’t mount the cooler until we removed the motherboard’s heatsink and replaced it with smaller heatsink modules. VRM temperatures didn’t exceed 67°C, which is in normal limits.

Prolimatech pretty neatly bent several heatpipes and routed them over memory slots. Heatsink has a slim design, with plenty of space below for tall memory modules with heatsinks, such as Corsair Dominator series.

The cooler’s slim design definitely helps with any potential conflicts with memory modules, but bear in mind that you will have to remove the Genesis before replacing the memory. However, Genesis can be removed by unscrewing two screws so that should not take up too much of your time.

We managed to mount Kingston's memory modules without taking the cooler off.

In most cases, though dependent on motherboard design, Genesis will take two 14cm fans in a push-pull configuration (it’s also possible to mount two 12cm fans).

Testing

We performed our testing in Corsair Obsidian 800D case with three reference fans running at 900RPM (room temperature about 22°C). Our weapons of choice were EVGA’s X58 FTW3 motherboard and Core i7 930 CPU. The temperatures were measured at reference 2.9GHz as well as after our overclock (we pushed the CPU to 3.6GHz).

For the first test with Genesis we used one 14cm fan. We’re talking about Thermalright’s TR-TY 140 fan (900~1300RPM) which ended up being enough for excellent Genesis performance. The case’s rear panel houses a 14cm fan that pushes the air out, so we’ve got ourselves a neat push-pull setup here.

We’ve already mentioned that the 14cm, 900 RPM fan on the case’s rear panel does great to improve cooling and ultimately, adding another fan on the coolers tower heatsing made little difference, so we strapped Genesis with one more fan but we mounted it on the heatsink above the memory modules and you can see it on the picture below.

We used Prime95 to put a 100% load on all Core i7 930’s cores, so bear in mind that we’re talking about a scenario that will most probably never happen. We measured temperatures on all four cores using AIDA64 (the successor to Everest), and put average values in the tables. We used Gelid’s GC Extreme paste.

After overclocking the CPU to 3.6MHz, Genesis took the top spot.

Genesis is Prolimatech’s new high-end CPU cooler with excellent performance that definitely walks in the footsteps of Prolimatech’s Megahalems, Armageddons and Super Megas. This time however, Prolimatech chose to step away from the standard tower design and designed the Genesis in a way for it to mount a strong challenge for the king of high-end cooling. Apart from excellent CPU cooling, Genesis will take care of components around the CPU socket in a much better way than classic tower CPU coolers.

Standard Genesis packaging does not include fans, but Caseking.de who kindly provided our test sample said that they will offer several versions with included fans. You can find the link and some pictures below.

Before our photo gallery, we must say that we were blown away by Genesis’ performance. This means that two fans will most likely provide some serious cooling performance, the kind that will be really difficult to beat by the competition. Provided your motherboard is compatible with it and you don’t mind shelling out extra few bucks, you seriously cannot go wrong with Prolimatech Genesis.

Genesis hit the shelves today and you can find it hereprice at 60 euro without the fans. It definitely does not come cheap, but we're confident that the cooling performance will make it worth your while. We would recommend the Genesis to enthusiasts as it packs a mean cooling punch and in that respect thoroughly deserves to be dubbed a "Fudzilla Recommended" piece of equipment. However, if you think that your ideal cooling should not cost as much, you might want to check out Prolimatech's Armageddon which goes for 44 euro, here.